RE: What will it take to convert you?
December 30, 2014 at 9:43 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2014 at 9:43 pm by Tonus.)
(December 30, 2014 at 8:39 pm)subsecret Wrote: let me ask you this and many others. From the closet star, I envision the earth to look like a dot on a piece of paper and out of that dot is a spec of dust which represents you. You being that spec of dust if we are to believe the concept of a God is true for a moments time.Then by the same token, expecting that god would care one whit about any of us, let alone temporarily kill himself to show how much he cared, is even more comical.
Making demands such as "god if i'm to believe you are real, i want to have all your powers for a day" or "i want 100 million dollars" or i want "1 million virgins" is comical at best.
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